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ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR '.IJO SIMPLEX METAL aou-Ni)-4 BOXNCOM'PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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Speciication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 9, 1912.

Application led August 20, 1910. Serial No. 578,081.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DOUGLAS P. FLEMING, States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful .Improvement in Boxes, of which the follow.

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dated May"2 6, 1908, yto E., E. Flora, and

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for assembly provided with my My invention relates to anjimprovement in boxes of the kind constructed of light and cheap material, such as veneer or {iberboard, which are reinforced with metal bindinglstrips, such as wire, in some cases and sheet-metal in others.

I have more immediately devised my improvement for use on theV metal-bound box which forms the subject of reissued Letters Patent of the United StatesA No. 12,800,

therefore herein describe it in that particu-- lar connection with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which?" Figure 1 is a perspective view of the Ametal-bound blanktand Fig. 2 is a similar view showing lthe box-body made by folding y the blank, with the lid raised and one head secured in place and the other inunassembled-relation to the body, both heads being improvedsecuring means in the preferred form thereof.

Boxes of the patented construction referred to are, like different. other boxes, shippedwith advantage, tothe trade or user, in knock-down or collapsed condition ofthe parts by the user. To

that end/the box is formed at'the factory with the bottom and side sections as a blank,

'ofjsembled parts must be with those sections, as also the lid, when desired, (that is if it be'designedto be a hinge-lid)v united along sheet-metal binding-strips, thereby adapting the blank to be folded into condition to form the body of the box by properly bending the metal binding between sections, and at the same time wrapping these 'sections about the box-heads, placed iii position for the purpose. To enable the user, after thus asfill the box with Amaterial to be retained in their boxforming relation. This might v`be `done by confining `the box,

a suitable frame, which, however, is not a practically desirable way, or by stapling, riveting, or indenting the {ianges of the equipped.

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condition of the parts,

their edges by the For fastening ygether in until the; parts are se. cured together by fastening down the lid, in

metal binding-strips to the box-heads, which abut outwardly againstthem, for which op- .l

erations, thoughjthe user is notordinarily The object of my invention is to provide simple and enective means on the box-heads "which may be readily and conveniently caused to secure the assembled parts of the box together under the conditions referred to, and which shall, moreover, serve the fuither purpose of materiallyl strengthening the structure. Y Referring to the drawing, the blank 8, for a'box-body of rectangular cross-section, l is shown to consist of sheets 4, 5, 6 and 7, of veneer, fiber-board or analogous boxstock, joined together along their opposite edges by similar. sheet-metal binding Strips 8, each strip being provided, bypreference, in a continuous length and provided with a troughlike section 9 to embrace the ends of the strips, to which it is permanently fastened, as by stapling, riveting, indenta- Or the like, and a Harige 10 extending at an angle from an edge of the trough-section. The strip is shown to be divided through the flange and inner side -of the troughLsect-ion, as represented at 11, lat intervals coinciding with the-spaces provided between successive edges vof the sheets, to adapt the blank to be readily'folded to form a'boxebody 12. The similar box-ends or heads 13,

rovement, be formed of stock as light as that ofthe body, are assembled with the latter, in forming the box from the knock-down by bending and foldingl they blank about the heads which are caused to occupy the position, for the assembling Operation, at the inner-sides of the vflanges 10, thus causing the latter to present abutments against displacement of the heads outwardly.

the parts of the box toprov'ement is employed consisting of tongues 14 of flexible sheet-metal lsecured to the box-heads to protrude beyond their edges and pass, in `,assembling the parts, through the box-body, near outwardly andengaged with the metal binding. For projecting the tongues through the box-body the latter ,is shown toube provided .with slots or openingsl located to 110f which may, vbecause of my imtheir assembled relation, my imh the ends thereof, when the projecting ends of the tongues ,are bent register' with the tongues, though when the body is formed, as it sometimes is, of spaced slats, like a crate, the tongues may protrude through the spaces. Only two of the tongues are required on each head for projecting one beyond each lateral edge thereof, although two are shown in the drawing to be thus provided in the preferred form of parallel strips of fiexible metal secured to the inner face of the head to extend entirely across it, and cause their protruding ends to constitute four fastening tongues; and if desired the tongues may be provided to project at more than two of the edges of the box-heads for their fastening purpose, and when constituting the projecting ends of strips, as suggested, the number of strips employed on each head would be provided accordingly in proper relative position. Such amplification is too obvious to require illustration.

As will be seen, my improvementnot only subserves the described fastening purpose most desirably, but, particularly when the tongues are provided as ,the ends of flexible-metal strips, it materially strengthens the boX by reinforcing the structure, so that when rendered heavy by its contents, carrying the load at the will not cause the weight ing and thus bulge the to warp the bindrespective sections metal-bound edges of the box-body', because of the resistance of the tongues in their engagement with the metal binding.

It is to be understood that my improvement is applicable with advantage to any box of the type herein specified whether the metal binding be that herein shown and described or of other form or construction, including a wire binding. I

IVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination, a boX formed of boX- stock and having openings .formed adjacent to the ends of its sides, sheet metal bindingstrips having trough-shaped sections in which the end portions of the boX structure are confined, fianges projecting from said trough sections forming box-end abutments, boX-ends abutting against said flanges and held from outward movement thereby, and flexible metal tongues secured to the rinner faces of theboX-ends and extending beyond the edges thereof and through the openings in the ends of the box sides, and bent outwardly around said binding strips to secure said box-ends against inward displacement, for the purpose set forth.

DOUGLAS P. FLEMING.

In presence of- A. U. THORIEN, R. A. SCHAEFER. 

